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FROM: http://truthout.org/docs_03/071403I.shtml
Original Article: http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101%257E62
67%257E1506312,00.html
Why
Does 9/11 Inquiry Scare Bush?
Berkshire Eagle | Editorial
The Bush administration
has never wanted an inquiry
into the intelligence and law-enforcement failures that led up to the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and
it is doing its best to make sure we never get one. Even
the tame commission of Washington insiders, led by men of the president's
own party, is now complaining that its work is being hampered by foot-dragging
from the Pentagon and Justice Department in producing documents and
witnesses, in an effort to run the clock out on it before it can complete
its work.
The commission's leaders
have taken the extraordinary step of accusing the White House of witness
"intimidation", insisting that sensitive witnesses
testify only in the presence of a "monitor" from their agency.
The parallel to Saddam Hussein's refusal to let Iraqi scientists talk
to U.N. weapons inspectors without a similar monitor is too glaring
to miss and begs the obvious question:
What has Mr. Bush got to hide?
The crudeness of his
tactics suggests that whatever it is, it
must be pretty bad. The Internet is full of wild theories
-- that Mr. Bush knew in advance of 9/11 and allowed it to happen so
he could exploit it to get his way in domestic and international politics
is the most notable -- and while cyberspace is the natural home of the
improbable and the far-fetched, the administration's
stonewalling only lends credence to those who believe a cover-up of
something is going on.
September 11 was the
most traumatic incident in recent American history. Three thousand people
died in New York, billions in property was destroyed, the national economy
tanked and Americans' sense of security was shattered. The men responsible
for the attacks are still at large and openly threaten to attack us
again. Yet the commission's budget is only
$3 million, a pittance compared to the $100 million that
was wasted getting to the bottom of Bill Clinton's Whitewater investment
and his extramarital affairs. The hearings in the Republican-dominated
Congress were a perfunctory affair that attracted even less attention
from a sensation-oriented media than is being paid to this commission.
The American people deserve
a thorough investigation. They want to know
why the fighter jets weren't scrambled after the first plane hit the
tower, what the Clinton and Bush administrations knew about
threats from al-Qaida and what they were doing about them, what citizens
of our allies Saudi Arabia and Pakistan financed Osama bin Laden and
his hijackers, how the FBI and CIA missed obvious clues and let suspects
they were following slip away, why airline security was so lax, what
is the meaning of a suspicious pattern of stock transactions that occurred
before the attacks, whether law enforcement efforts were
subordinated to diplomatic priorities and the needs and desires of American
oil companies.
Americans want the answers
to two basic questions: What went wrong? And what is being done to make
sure it never happens again? They should be satisfied with nothing less
than an honest effort to get those answers, no matter who they embarrass,
and the White House should
not stand in the way.
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